Verify a decision
Every moderation decision on AVOID.NET is anchored to the Solana blockchain. You don't have to trust us — you can verify cryptographically that we committed to a verdict at a specific moment and have not rewritten it.
How verification works
- We commit. When a moderator accepts/rejects a submission, we serialize the decision into deterministic UTF-8 bytes (
payload_canonical_string), hash it with SHA-256, encode the digest as base58, and write it to Solana inside an SPL Memo v2 transaction. - We store the bytes. The exact bytes we hashed are stored alongside the decision in our database. Anyone can read them and recompute the hash in any language.
- You compare three values. Database hash, your independently-recomputed hash, and the hash inside the on-chain memo. If all three match, the decision is authentic and timestamped.
The on-chain memo format is
AVOID.NET|v1|h:<b58-sha256>|d:<id>|t:<iso>Find a signature on any investigation page's decision log, or run python -m src.verify_decision --signature <sig> for a CLI check.
Decision
accept · Abracadabra Money
- Sequence
- #2
- Score
- 28 → 27 (-1)
- Cluster
- mainnet-beta
- Slot
- 454171050
- Off-chain at
- 2026-10-07T08:36:20.928Z
- Anchored at
- 2026-10-07T08:36:28.384Z
- Block time
- —
Independent verification
- 1. Database (off-chain)
- C9XNgd2m7YLBc8JAVM1qFPNfCHnejPfPFkNMjCr2PEXM
- 2. Recomputed (your browser)
- computing…
- 3. On-chain (Solana memo)
- fetching…
Canonical bytes hashed (714 chars)
{"actor":"agent:avoid-moderator","decided_at":"2026-10-07T08:36:20.676Z","decision":"accept","investigation_id":"04ced6c0-f931-4b8d-94ff-745d70a453a2","new_score":27,"page_slug":"abracadabra-money","prev_score":28,"reason":"Unchained article loads and reports Abracadabra's proposal to shut down MIM with holders getting about 4 cents, with about $21M bad debt after repeated hacks. Note says the vote confirmed it; the article only describes the vote as pending.","score_delta":-1,"sequence_num":2,"submission_content_hash":"8d15400df85259e8bb79095457eb9c12f66828acf964f2fa259e51e978756d09","submission_id":"1da2ad6e-774b-44ab-819d-c66a34a802af","submission_kind":"url","submission_valence":"incriminating","v":1}